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It’s a nice sentiment, but things haven’t exactly worked out for the pro-democracy movement in HK.

I could see them maybe using a custom version of Deepseek for that second tier. Could be a boon for them if the inference costs are a lot lower.

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It’s actually pretty rare for dictatorships to have only one legal party. Even North Korea is nominally a multi-party state. Such minor parties are just token controlled opposition ofc, but they serve to give a flimsy “democratic” veneer.

America’s trajectory rn is aiming closer to the illiberal/managed democracy of Hungary under Viktor Orban, where there are true opposition parties with an actual chance at winning, but the media, government, and electoral system is strongly biased against them.

Annoyingly, it initially seemed to work well on my iPad (only lacking right-click support, which upped the difficulty nicely), but now it only shows the multicolored loading screen forever. Not a cookie thing either, since it does the same thing in a private tab.

I just wish it would prioritize the top from the last 6 hours while showing older stuff below. Because slower communities feel dead when you visit and see no posts (even if there was one seven hours ago).

“You can’t take a picture of this, it’s already gone.”

Yeah, if you do the Connections Bot, at the end it links to the NYT comments, and each one has its own themed image.

The little image at the end of this one made me lol.

Updated, thanks.

Thomas Manga: “No, I just wanted to make him jerk it.”

What a condescending way to make your point. Of course terrorism doesn’t belong to one ideology.

I was talking about vehicle ramming attacks specifically, because the deadliest incidents have been Islamist extremists targeting crowded venues in Europe, including the Bastille Day attack on the promenade in Nice and the 2016 attack on another Christmas market in Berlin (which this attack was clearly imitating). I just find it weird that a right-wing anti-immigrant Islamophobe would do a copycat attack like that – it’s like a left-wing Israeli protesting the war in Gaza by suicide-bombing Palestinians in Ramallah.

Why would an Islamophobic, anti-immigration Saudi launch a vehicle attack associated with jihadist terrorism on a German Christmas market? Bizarre.

We got a regular Mr. Incredible over here.

Scott is a bag of shit, but the nominee for SoS is Florida’s other senator Marco Rubio (who is also a bag of shit).

Not exactly an iconic line, but I love the delivery:

“Have you heard of the Monks of Deshuba?”

Fry: “I’ve… not heard of them.”

Futurama’s great for nerdy science gags, social satire, and pop culture spoofs, but its best jokes are always uniquely stupid twists of language like this.

Maybe sticky one early announcement and then another one right before it starts?